[Civil War]: [127th New York Infantry]:

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PATRIOTS, COME FORWARD! THE UNDERSIGNED, BY THE ADVICE AND ENCOURAGEMENT OF NUMEROUS FRIENDS IS ENROLLING A COMPANY OF YOUNG MEN OF GOOD MORAL CHARACTER...[caption title and first lines of ... A rare Civil War recruiting broadside seeking to raise troops for Company A in the 127th New York Infantry, also known as the "Monitors," in response to Lincoln's July 1, 1862, call for additional volunteers. Organized by members of the 7th regiment of the New York State Militia (the "Blue-Bloods") who had served in the first year of the war, recruitment for Company A began in early August, following a July 28th meeting which gave the regiment its nickname. The regiment, they declared, was "to be composed of young men of good moral character, each of whom was expected to exert a 'monitorial' restraining influence over the others, that the demoralizing influences of camp and army life might thereby be minimized" (McGrath, p.6). William Howland, who signs this broadside in type and served as commander of Company A, was a Sabbath School teacher at the Thirteenth Street Presbyterian Church where that meeting was held, and recruited several members of his congregation in addition to printing the present broadside and running newspaper advertisements. The broadside reads in part:"The company is now rapidly filling up under the auspices of several of the most prominent and energetic of our citizens, and bids fair to equal in the character of its men...any company yet enrolled. The members pled

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